Located at the foot of the Ozark Mountains, Silver Lake, Illinois is a farm town and gentrified spa town on the Mississippi River across the border from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and a couple of hours from the Meramec Caverns in Missouri. Add a bungee jump, hang gliders, hot air balloon rides, kayaking and parachuting and you’ll have plenty to test your nerves, get a unique view of the local scenery and get a quick gulp or two of fresh, country air. Summer means this border town fills up with extreme sports enthusiasts. Imagine whitewater rafting, then relaxing in a sauna? Then buying a box of Baklava soaked in local organic honey to bring back to your hotel suite, rented condo, time-share or rustic lodge? Beats rice crispy squares, a candy bar and a smelly tent. Silver Lake is more than rural; it is prehistoric. Even the catfish look old. When the hidden Mesolithic passages leading from the Meramec caverns to Silver Lake are added to a network of secret tunnels from the underground railway and an old sand mine that only a few people know about - one of them being Elise Snuggles, things heat up. As Elise says: that leaves a lot of places to hide. It All Comes Out in the Wash and the Silver Lake Mysteries (a cozy mystery series) features Asia Reynolds as the primary member of a trio of 3 strong women. This book’s theme centers on “Smithers’ and Smart’s California Spa and Laundromat” a multi-million dollar project designed to appeal to the ultra rich jet setter tourists that frequent the small, rural town of Silver Lake, Illinois located near Cape Girardeau, on the Missouri/Illinois border and the Mississippi river. The laundromat addition is mostly for the local students at Central Illinois University. The other 2 members of the trio are a town cop, Sgt. Sheila “She-she” Rodriguez and Elise Snuggles (local cable/Afro-American news staff). In this book, the three friends unravel a plot to derail a televised political debate during the opening of the very important summer season in their Eco-tourist town. Asia Reynolds, well-known documentary filmmaker and nature photographer, is kidnapped when she decides to team up with her sidekicks Elise Snuggles and Sgt. Sheila Rodriguez in order to find out who is behind several crimes tainting the opening of carnival season in Silver Lake, Illinois. As would be expected, the older farm folks sometimes have conflicts with the tourist crowd -- and their politicians. To say nothing of the ultra-rich and their wine and coke parties. Coke as in cocaine. The fertile cornfields of Illinois, waving in a vast, deep green sea, cannot forever hide the roots of agricultural versus industrial intrigue. Dubbed “Chico’s Angels” (Patrolman Chico Almonte being Sheila Rodriguez’s fine cattle-breeding, stallion-riding, super buff, more-than-a-boyfriend), the three friends and their dog follow a trail of hippies, ecologists and wealthy farmers trying to heal the wounds of a water conflict and political murder only to uncover the plot to another possible murder. With a large group of possible killers ranging from a smart-mouthed gay, obese billionaire California financier to a seemingly innocuous hippie street musician, the solution to this maze comes together as the international jet-set parachutes over the Mississippi and mega-tourists jam the streets of the small town eating shish-kabob and renting pre-paid, time-share condos. Sophia Watson also writes under the pseudonym Zara Brooks-Watson (see "Jitterbug" & "Tie Dye" on Kindle). See: silverlakemysteries.wixsite.com/sophia-watson for all book updates.